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EXERCISE 3 OF 56
Groove AG -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
29 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART G
PART K
PART G
BREAK
CHORUS
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQS5GYK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Show Don't Tell on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-44, silence through bars 45-74, hi-hat through bars 75-76, ride through bars 77-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-118, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-36 -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                                               22
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x--x--o-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|x-----------------x-----------x-----------------|
Show Don't Tell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 76, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K, Y -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-77 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Show Don't Tell?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Show Don't Tell hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Show Don't Tell?

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 76, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED